Legends & Fairy Tales

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


L. Leslie Brooke



This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin



This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes

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Charles Godfrey Leland



This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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William Butler Yeats



This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 7)

Read by Lyn Stanley


L. Frank Baum



"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in whi…

A Book of Myths

Read by James K. White


Jean Lang



This is a collection of myths--mostly Greek with a smattering of others from the east--written in a clear and easy-to-read style. Lang compl…

The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

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Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon



"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding th…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading)

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Oscar Wilde



Wilde's collection of fairy tales has delighted both children and adults since it was first published in 1888. It contains five stories, &qu…

Mother Goose in Prose

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L. Frank Baum



Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

Rinkitink in Oz (version 3)

Read by Phil Chenevert


L. Frank Baum



Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink and their companions have adventures that lead to the land of the Nomes and, eventually, Oz. In …

The Trojan Women (Murray Translation)

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Euripides



Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining famil…

Glinda of Oz (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


L. Frank Baum



Glinda the Good, the great sorceress of Oz takes the spotlight in this, the very last OZ book written by L. Frank Baum himself. Ozma hears …

Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

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Jonathan Swift



This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Selma Lagerlöf



Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…

The King of Ireland's Son

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Pádraic Colum



The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It i…

The Legends of Charlemagne

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Thomas Bulfinch



Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) explains the his work is "an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make …

History of the Kings of Britain

Read by Paul Mazumdar


Geoffrey Of Monmouth



More medieval romance than history, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae represents the oldest versions we have of many legends …

King Arthur

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Joseph Comyns Carr



A retelling of the classic legend of King Arthur, Guinevere & Sir Lancelot. (Summary by Amanda Friday)CastKing Arthur: Algy PugSir Lance…

The Firelight Fairy Book

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Henry Beston



One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of win…

Polish Fairy Tales

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A. J. Glinski



These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may…

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